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fptettftt f^wlittifttt it ii even wise to abitain from laws which however wise ud good in themselves hive the semhlince of inequality which lin.l no response in the hc.rt of the citizen id which will he ended with little remorie the wiidom of legislation i p i'.hy seen in grilling inns on conscience hr chaining sai.ishi'ltv llowax county s.v mtfndav april 1 1831 fvoia xi o 604 child am assiduous and careful nurse nnd a gent and lady-like membei ol at family : such a person must he all a husbind culd covet and i offer mv hand and fortune lor her acceptance on monday when i call 1 ihall ex pert your determination ; lor really i ave not lime for the routine of court ship ln this humor the woman was wooed nd won : and we believe we may add lho union has been felicitous in every respect . which no one but a tobacco cliewer could fail to understand the j"v ernor did not take tla.ir hints and tho shining receptacle destined in every decent establishment lor ihe accom modation of such gentlemen as hia kxcelkncy was pushed round ard round for his notice until he could avoid it no longer withoul turning bis back on the honored object of his c luntry's gratitude his temper be came a little excited by the acting of a pantomime before him wliiclihe did not understand lie only rhewtd the harder and poured forth the odorife rnus saliva iu increased quantities at last with much impatience hr claimed to the servants " ii v"u dâ„¢*t tike that there there away i 11 pitia it geo courier anecdote of iiuiins burns was one day at a cattle mar ket held in a town in cumberland and in the bustle that prevails on these occasions he lost sight of his respected cronies he pushed to a tavern opened the door of every room and merely looked in till at last he came to one in which the jolly cumberland blades were enjoying themselves as lie withdrew his head one of them shouted ' come in johnny i'eep hums obeyed the call seated himself at the table and in a short time was the lift and soul of the party in the course ol their merriment it was pro posed that each should write a stanza of poetry pot it with half-a-crown be low the candlestick with this stipula tion that the best poet was to have his half-crown returned while the other three were to be expended to treat the partv what the others wrote has now sunk in nblivinn but the stanza of the ayrshire ploughman ran as follows : here an i johnny peep i i saw three sheep at nd these three sheep law me ll..ir-a-cruwn a pleoe will pay for their fleece and so lulu ny i'eep gets free a roar of laughter followed and while the palm nf victory was unanimously voled to hums one of the english men cxclained ' in g ids's name who are you v an explanation ensued and the happy party did not separate the same day they met a scheme '. a iieeious scheme i i we uke the following article from the baltimore republican a print which has ever been noted as correct in its assertion and one which has ever been devoted to thc present adminis tration â€” yes and one ton that has visci:iaia.i eous female education ,\ young lady may excel in npc.k o french and indian 1 may repeat a few passages from thc vol unn of ex acts i plÂ»y like a professor and sing like a syren 1 have her dressing-room decorated with her own drawing ta bles stands flower-pots screens and ,., limns nay sh may dunce like 1 mphrnnia herself and vet we shm jn.isi thit she may have been verv badly educated i am far from mean ing ,â€ž i.l 110 value whatever nn any or all of these qualifications : they are a l of them elegant and many of them lend to the p ilccting of a polite edu ( ati these things in their me nr 1111.i d*gre m:,v be done * lmt there are others which should it..t be 1 it undone m my ihings aire becom ing but onu thing needful be sides as the world seems to be fully apprised of the value i wh ever tends 10 embellish life there is less occasion here to insist on its importance hut though a well-bred young la.ly mm lawfully learn most uf the fashionable arts yet let me ask does it seem to be the true end of education to make women of fashion dancers singers plavers painters actresses sculptors gilders varnishera engravers and embroiderers mostmen are common ly destined lo some prolrss.on and their blinds are consequently turned each to its respective object would it not be strange il they were called out to exercise their prolession or set np their trade with only a little gener al knowledge of the trades and pro fessions of all other men an.l without nnv previous definite application to their own pecnlier calling ? the pro fession of ladieb to which the lienl ol their instructions should be turned is that of daughters wives mother and mistresses of families the.y should lie therefore trained with a view to these several conditions and be fur nished with ideas nnd principles and qualifications and habits ready to be applied and appropriated as occasion rnsv demand to each of these respect ive situations titough the arts which merely embelish life must claim admiration when a man ol sense comes to marry it is a companion whom he wants and not an artist it is not merely a creature who can paint and plav and sing and draw and dress and dance : it is a being who can com fort and counsel him one who can reason and reffect an.l li el andjudge and discourse discriminate ; one who can assist him in his alfiirs lighten bis cares sooth his sorrows purifv his joys strengthen his principles and educate his children such is the woman who is fit for a wife a mother and a mistress of a family watched the oflhecoalition and fearlessly brought them forth and unmasked them in this instance it has discovered a pint â€” but i will not do â€” the coalition must make another trial mr mrl.can never will consent io lend himsef to such a compact the integrity of this gentleman i ton well known nnd we hazzard nothing ill the assertion j but come forward who may jack3on must be triumph ant !-â€¢- i it is said that the character of a wo j man muv be kuoiv.i by the internal ap | pearance of lur house and lhe dress nod manners of her children if ihe furniture ol her apartments exhibits an air ol extravagance und sham rtith er th n comfort we may inter tlt.it she is ti vain wo 11:111 |â€” and that her mind and her dress ul a equally fan tastic if the ornaments uf her house however sptepdid they may-be are badly arranged or incongruously as sortcil with those lhat are mean r common nnd more especially if the drapery of arc line is suffered to hunt through the ivaills of cornices it is t proof strong as holy writ that she is deficient both in taste and neatness such a woman would as likely as not wear black stockings with a whit drcs â€” roses i her beaver and a cup to save tile trouble of combing her hair woman at home the opponents of oeneral jackson discovering lhe utter hopelessness of any attempt to elevate mr clav to the presidency and having no other man in their own party for whom it would be worth while evtn to open a poll yet bating not a jot of their hatred of the honest patriot whom the people delight to honor have been sorely puz zled as to what course thry sli ii pur sue rut a scheme a most notable scheme is now on foot among ihem it is nothingless than to come into the jackson rank lor an alttt-jackson'can didn.e any thing lo defeat lack son is their motto â€” they have given up all their idea of running mr clay wc have learned this fact from men who have a right to kuow and who we do not doubt do know all their views their scheme now is to offer their nomination to john mclean of i ihlo the late post mister oeneral ! they talk hereabouts no longer in whispers about this matter thev say mclean is a moderate 1 icksiiiiiiin.and tlieir ni nt is as we said before any thing to defeat jackson 1 they are wil ling to lake mr mclean we know such is their present intention we have heard some of them avow it an.l many things have come to our knowledge which coroborate ihe truth of iheir intention the philosophy of sleep 0 would suppose that sleep had more it do w.ih conscience than phllosop y a sound sleeper must either be a vrrjl honest man or a hard tied villia mr macnish a physician of olasgow h.s ately published a work whrrein he in testigutesthe philosophy of sleep hi work is divided into thirteen chapters l-the introduction the sensorial pow er â€” sleep in general which is we si.p pose the absence of watchfulness â€” the use of sleep which is probably to re fresh the weary and to allow silent people to exercise some of their or gans by snoring â€” the sleep of planta which must be very stupid biisinebs dreaming â€” management of dreaming â€” prophetic powers of dreaming if night mare day mare â€” sleep walk iog â€” sleep talking â€” sleeplessness sleep from cold walking dreams reverie abstraction â€” drowsiness protracted sleep â€” trance death sleep ofthe soul â€” general management of sleep tne foreign journals say lhat the author is quite animated on this sleepy subject if her children notwithstanding the fashion or richness of their clothes are dirty or carelessly dressed â€” if their mirds are uncultivated and their manners rude the mother will most generally prove to he both ignor ant and indolent or which is worse historical anecdote â€” there was one night displayed at court a mask it particular splendor in which thc king himsell charles ii acted a pa.t s.x personages of the highest rank the king himself being tie of them appeared for the amusement of the party disguised in the character of silvans or satyrs their drtss con sisted of canvass coats pitched over to which wool or flax was ittiched in loose flakes to represent the charac ter which they had assumed they were linked together with chains and formed a pageant which excited gen eral curiosity the duke of orleans used the privilege of his rank to ap proach the silvans with a torch in or der to discover who tbe maskers were unhappily their dress being highly inflammable the whole group was on fire in an instant linked together in the manner described there was lit tle chance of escape j yet the general cry of the perishing group was to save lln king even while they themselves were in the agonies of a death so painful the dutchess of berri who was speaking with the king at the moment when the accident took place had lhe presence ol mind aod resolu tion to wrap ihe unphappy monarch in her mantle and save him from a death which in his condition how ever painful and horrible might have been a toenail i dispensation ann-h cr of the unhappy maskers plunged himsell into a cistern of water which chanced to be near the remaining four were so dreadfully burnt that they all died in great agony sir walter scnlt's tales nf a lirandfather wholly indifferent to the well-being of her children the opposite f all these may be ns.ribed to the woman whose house is neal in everv part as far as she is ahle to render it sn it matters not ivhcther she dwells in a palace or a collage order and neat ness are conspicuous in every thing round her in tbe dress of her chil dren she unites simplicity with tasle and attends at once to the improve ment of their minds and cultivation of those graces which in a greater or less degree according to their res pective stations in life will recom mend them tn society such a wo man although she mav not he learned or accomplished according to the modern acceptation ofthe term will be found to possess judgment goodbense and a ennect t.i.te with respect to her dress ils " unfitness will never be made an apology for not seeing her friends her domestic or other engagements may vith propriety pre vent her from receiving their visits ; but if she chooses to see them he dress if proper for the business in which she may happen to be eng.gcd she will never be ushimed of huh at home and abroad il will always be dictated by a sense of propriety pre serving a proper medium between the extravagances of f.shion and that homelv plainness that usually denotes an ordinary mind snacks during the plague in lon don a noted body searcher lived whose name was snacks his business in creased so fast that finding he could not compass it hc offered to any per son who should join him in his har dened practice half the profits ; thus those who joined him were said to go snacks hence going snacks or di viding the spoil dtlllkrupt dividends â€” the anec dote of the barber's failure in wed nrsdiy's paper reminded a friend to call and tell us of a loss he met with a lew days since by the bankruptcy of a professional polisher of boots the disciple of day & martin had his only change pair of snow trackers in posses sion for the purpose of gibiti on cm de reel shine â€” but as ihey did not ap pear at his door in due lime in the morn ing he put on yesterday's dull pair snd found his way to the shop of culfe brush which was fast as a door nail could make it cuff however shewed the dark of his countenance through a oroken pane and said flood mornin massa open the door cuff oh massa i bcry surry i can't admit your honour cant why not v why 1 met misfortune and beeil obliged to torn bankrup ah that's had how much have you failed for i'irteen dollar acbenty one cent massa well hand out my boots cuff make an honest settlement wilh your creditors and you'll do well enough here's one massa hand along the other oh no massa i only pays dibi dend of filly cent on de dollar uasum trans raising itrnt r'ir i intend ta raise your rent sain a latilord to a ten ant to which the latter replied i ans much obliged to you lor i cannot raiso it myself / â€” wit !â€” i'he new york enquirer wss once tdited a many of ur readcei ra awae by m m nai,ah a man of genuine wit and humor and of whom we will say wiih all hia faults the rorfi editorial could have " belter spared a batter man hia humorous paragraphs acquired for hia paper extensive notoriety which iha present editor attempts to sustain hy most wretched imi'ntions ol hia pre.tccc.sor imitate wit he had a well attempt lo imi.ate lightning w e quule below a fen specimens uf ahoration win h wo find in one paper if ihoy do not make our readers at k they havo su ouger stom achs than we are blessed with a abernelhifs courtship und mar tiage â€” the following amusing anec dote of ahern.ithy the surgeon is from the 18ih number of the nation alpotrait oallery :â€” " the reported lashion of his courtship and marriage is exemplary while attending a lady for several weeks he observed those admirable qualifications in her daugh ler which he truly esteemed to be cal culated to render the married state hap py accordingly on a saturday when taking leave ol his p.ticnt he addressed her to the billowing pur port ('â€¢ you are now so well that i need not see ynu afler monday next when i shall come to pay my farewell visit rut in the mean time 1 wish you and your daughter seriously to consider the proposal i am now aboul to make it is abrupt and uncere mt.nious 1 nm aware ; bill tbe exces sive occupation of my time by my profeaional duties affords mat no lei sure to accomplish what i desire by the more ordinary course of attention and solicitation my annual receipts amount pounds and i an settle - â€” pounds on my wife ; my charac er ia generally known to the public in that you may readily ascertain v hat it is i have seen in your stale of maine vs.pedlars of woo llen clocks â€” on m mday last a bill was twice read in the legislature of maine prnhihitingjpedlara from trav elling irom town to town selling woo den clocks on the pen dty of thirty dollars for each one sold in vlolati in of the law is not this rank treason against ihe numerous race of indus irious new kngland pedlars we know that these clocks go excellen well â€” we verily believe and will vouch for it that n..t an advocate of this bill in maine keeps iis good time or obtains in his utoretiienls a tick as unlimited or should by chance his tick he about ceasing or when it has ac tually ceased there is no one who has the key â€” golden one of course to wind up and go tick again why i this bill pass into a law what would become ol our excellent new kngland friends wholesale dealers in clocks nutmegs aud other noliomsi well may they exclaim the pedlars occupation gone much we fear that this may bc their exclamation before long for lhe bill hall passed to a third reading â€” this dogberry would have said is most tolerable and not to be endured what has become ol lhe national bank ll ii puling on its dicky what has become ol the merchants ex change i fixing iii spun mauifetto ef the 'â€¢ mnienall t.t iv tngtos â€” mr webster has just published in lhc iwo 'â€¢ national organs at wash ington a " manifesto on the present hale of his pariv a synopsii ol lhe cal i ooo affair he his not put his name tu it â€” suppose he was ashamed lo du it a oeahtlon â€” tristram burgess in thc house hacked the administration 011 ike llushi.ni mission and tazwell in senate ll.e turkish par nobite fratrum the u s ll.nk oigans ore abusive ng f severe psltisb und impotent upon col hcnion ol miiaoun the colonel can si and a breeze memoirs of jeijeison.â€”tae west minster review lur the month of oc tober last observes in relation to this important work : our limits do not admit of our doing justice to the valuable content of thcbc volumes j but we most earn estly commend tl.em to all our read en who have not yet perused them as containing numerous and rich ma terials of authentic history .- as pre senting on almost all truly important questions views sometimes new most frequently just and always worthy ol patient consideration : as abounding in incitements to mor il c irage and po litical honesty as confirming rational hopes of the progress of knowledge and liberty : us elevating our opinion of human nature the tditor of the morning chroni cle a paper published iu london fur ther remarks :â€” jefferson was undoubtedly the greatest public benefactor that has ap peared in the nineteenth century whatever may be his sta.inn in the eighteenth in which it is difficult to say that he was second even to washington we have recently heard the follow ' ing storv of one of the oovernura of the slates : his excellency was doing the honors of lafayette's reception in a splendid room fitted op for thc inter esting occasion he had been as little accustomed to a carpet as the coun tryman who walked around it on the floor ; but treated it with much 7 lets respect his kxcellency was an inor dinate chewer ol tobacco and had a most juicy mouth which he emptied with but little ceremony ou the turkey carpet whose splendors were unfolded for ihe reception ofthe nation's finest the servants in attendance looked upon thc disgrace to which their favor ite was ihui subjected with silciu sor row but witii many a significant look " the wiju lire says the rich mond whiff 1 re slrasdy migrating la mc north many membors from con greas are expected bete in a few day w |, coll ibe praai.lÂ«nt.nd cabinet an aeefihalolu administration he nana â€¢' l'a.iceph..lus ihe lavorite horse of al exandor iho great the president of he united states hank could have _ t mr walsh rtglit as to he application of certain animals wnoarc ridden lur cer tain purposes wal.b'i national hank ia^cite is scry industriously opposing lba odmtn.si llop i'.iciy way he glvas ila m.i v x mer

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fptettftt f^wlittifttt it ii even wise to abitain from laws which however wise ud good in themselves hive the semhlince of inequality which lin.l no response in the hc.rt of the citizen id which will he ended with little remorie the wiidom of legislation i p i'.hy seen in grilling inns on conscience hr chaining sai.ishi'ltv llowax county s.v mtfndav april 1 1831 fvoia xi o 604 child am assiduous and careful nurse nnd a gent and lady-like membei ol at family : such a person must he all a husbind culd covet and i offer mv hand and fortune lor her acceptance on monday when i call 1 ihall ex pert your determination ; lor really i ave not lime for the routine of court ship ln this humor the woman was wooed nd won : and we believe we may add lho union has been felicitous in every respect . which no one but a tobacco cliewer could fail to understand the j"v ernor did not take tla.ir hints and tho shining receptacle destined in every decent establishment lor ihe accom modation of such gentlemen as hia kxcelkncy was pushed round ard round for his notice until he could avoid it no longer withoul turning bis back on the honored object of his c luntry's gratitude his temper be came a little excited by the acting of a pantomime before him wliiclihe did not understand lie only rhewtd the harder and poured forth the odorife rnus saliva iu increased quantities at last with much impatience hr claimed to the servants " ii v"u dâ„¢*t tike that there there away i 11 pitia it geo courier anecdote of iiuiins burns was one day at a cattle mar ket held in a town in cumberland and in the bustle that prevails on these occasions he lost sight of his respected cronies he pushed to a tavern opened the door of every room and merely looked in till at last he came to one in which the jolly cumberland blades were enjoying themselves as lie withdrew his head one of them shouted ' come in johnny i'eep hums obeyed the call seated himself at the table and in a short time was the lift and soul of the party in the course ol their merriment it was pro posed that each should write a stanza of poetry pot it with half-a-crown be low the candlestick with this stipula tion that the best poet was to have his half-crown returned while the other three were to be expended to treat the partv what the others wrote has now sunk in nblivinn but the stanza of the ayrshire ploughman ran as follows : here an i johnny peep i i saw three sheep at nd these three sheep law me ll..ir-a-cruwn a pleoe will pay for their fleece and so lulu ny i'eep gets free a roar of laughter followed and while the palm nf victory was unanimously voled to hums one of the english men cxclained ' in g ids's name who are you v an explanation ensued and the happy party did not separate the same day they met a scheme '. a iieeious scheme i i we uke the following article from the baltimore republican a print which has ever been noted as correct in its assertion and one which has ever been devoted to thc present adminis tration â€” yes and one ton that has visci:iaia.i eous female education ,\ young lady may excel in npc.k o french and indian 1 may repeat a few passages from thc vol unn of ex acts i plÂ»y like a professor and sing like a syren 1 have her dressing-room decorated with her own drawing ta bles stands flower-pots screens and ,., limns nay sh may dunce like 1 mphrnnia herself and vet we shm jn.isi thit she may have been verv badly educated i am far from mean ing ,â€ž i.l 110 value whatever nn any or all of these qualifications : they are a l of them elegant and many of them lend to the p ilccting of a polite edu ( ati these things in their me nr 1111.i d*gre m:,v be done * lmt there are others which should it..t be 1 it undone m my ihings aire becom ing but onu thing needful be sides as the world seems to be fully apprised of the value i wh ever tends 10 embellish life there is less occasion here to insist on its importance hut though a well-bred young la.ly mm lawfully learn most uf the fashionable arts yet let me ask does it seem to be the true end of education to make women of fashion dancers singers plavers painters actresses sculptors gilders varnishera engravers and embroiderers mostmen are common ly destined lo some prolrss.on and their blinds are consequently turned each to its respective object would it not be strange il they were called out to exercise their prolession or set np their trade with only a little gener al knowledge of the trades and pro fessions of all other men an.l without nnv previous definite application to their own pecnlier calling ? the pro fession of ladieb to which the lienl ol their instructions should be turned is that of daughters wives mother and mistresses of families the.y should lie therefore trained with a view to these several conditions and be fur nished with ideas nnd principles and qualifications and habits ready to be applied and appropriated as occasion rnsv demand to each of these respect ive situations titough the arts which merely embelish life must claim admiration when a man ol sense comes to marry it is a companion whom he wants and not an artist it is not merely a creature who can paint and plav and sing and draw and dress and dance : it is a being who can com fort and counsel him one who can reason and reffect an.l li el andjudge and discourse discriminate ; one who can assist him in his alfiirs lighten bis cares sooth his sorrows purifv his joys strengthen his principles and educate his children such is the woman who is fit for a wife a mother and a mistress of a family watched the oflhecoalition and fearlessly brought them forth and unmasked them in this instance it has discovered a pint â€” but i will not do â€” the coalition must make another trial mr mrl.can never will consent io lend himsef to such a compact the integrity of this gentleman i ton well known nnd we hazzard nothing ill the assertion j but come forward who may jack3on must be triumph ant !-â€¢- i it is said that the character of a wo j man muv be kuoiv.i by the internal ap | pearance of lur house and lhe dress nod manners of her children if ihe furniture ol her apartments exhibits an air ol extravagance und sham rtith er th n comfort we may inter tlt.it she is ti vain wo 11:111 |â€” and that her mind and her dress ul a equally fan tastic if the ornaments uf her house however sptepdid they may-be are badly arranged or incongruously as sortcil with those lhat are mean r common nnd more especially if the drapery of arc line is suffered to hunt through the ivaills of cornices it is t proof strong as holy writ that she is deficient both in taste and neatness such a woman would as likely as not wear black stockings with a whit drcs â€” roses i her beaver and a cup to save tile trouble of combing her hair woman at home the opponents of oeneral jackson discovering lhe utter hopelessness of any attempt to elevate mr clav to the presidency and having no other man in their own party for whom it would be worth while evtn to open a poll yet bating not a jot of their hatred of the honest patriot whom the people delight to honor have been sorely puz zled as to what course thry sli ii pur sue rut a scheme a most notable scheme is now on foot among ihem it is nothingless than to come into the jackson rank lor an alttt-jackson'can didn.e any thing lo defeat lack son is their motto â€” they have given up all their idea of running mr clay wc have learned this fact from men who have a right to kuow and who we do not doubt do know all their views their scheme now is to offer their nomination to john mclean of i ihlo the late post mister oeneral ! they talk hereabouts no longer in whispers about this matter thev say mclean is a moderate 1 icksiiiiiiin.and tlieir ni nt is as we said before any thing to defeat jackson 1 they are wil ling to lake mr mclean we know such is their present intention we have heard some of them avow it an.l many things have come to our knowledge which coroborate ihe truth of iheir intention the philosophy of sleep 0 would suppose that sleep had more it do w.ih conscience than phllosop y a sound sleeper must either be a vrrjl honest man or a hard tied villia mr macnish a physician of olasgow h.s ately published a work whrrein he in testigutesthe philosophy of sleep hi work is divided into thirteen chapters l-the introduction the sensorial pow er â€” sleep in general which is we si.p pose the absence of watchfulness â€” the use of sleep which is probably to re fresh the weary and to allow silent people to exercise some of their or gans by snoring â€” the sleep of planta which must be very stupid biisinebs dreaming â€” management of dreaming â€” prophetic powers of dreaming if night mare day mare â€” sleep walk iog â€” sleep talking â€” sleeplessness sleep from cold walking dreams reverie abstraction â€” drowsiness protracted sleep â€” trance death sleep ofthe soul â€” general management of sleep tne foreign journals say lhat the author is quite animated on this sleepy subject if her children notwithstanding the fashion or richness of their clothes are dirty or carelessly dressed â€” if their mirds are uncultivated and their manners rude the mother will most generally prove to he both ignor ant and indolent or which is worse historical anecdote â€” there was one night displayed at court a mask it particular splendor in which thc king himsell charles ii acted a pa.t s.x personages of the highest rank the king himself being tie of them appeared for the amusement of the party disguised in the character of silvans or satyrs their drtss con sisted of canvass coats pitched over to which wool or flax was ittiched in loose flakes to represent the charac ter which they had assumed they were linked together with chains and formed a pageant which excited gen eral curiosity the duke of orleans used the privilege of his rank to ap proach the silvans with a torch in or der to discover who tbe maskers were unhappily their dress being highly inflammable the whole group was on fire in an instant linked together in the manner described there was lit tle chance of escape j yet the general cry of the perishing group was to save lln king even while they themselves were in the agonies of a death so painful the dutchess of berri who was speaking with the king at the moment when the accident took place had lhe presence ol mind aod resolu tion to wrap ihe unphappy monarch in her mantle and save him from a death which in his condition how ever painful and horrible might have been a toenail i dispensation ann-h cr of the unhappy maskers plunged himsell into a cistern of water which chanced to be near the remaining four were so dreadfully burnt that they all died in great agony sir walter scnlt's tales nf a lirandfather wholly indifferent to the well-being of her children the opposite f all these may be ns.ribed to the woman whose house is neal in everv part as far as she is ahle to render it sn it matters not ivhcther she dwells in a palace or a collage order and neat ness are conspicuous in every thing round her in tbe dress of her chil dren she unites simplicity with tasle and attends at once to the improve ment of their minds and cultivation of those graces which in a greater or less degree according to their res pective stations in life will recom mend them tn society such a wo man although she mav not he learned or accomplished according to the modern acceptation ofthe term will be found to possess judgment goodbense and a ennect t.i.te with respect to her dress ils " unfitness will never be made an apology for not seeing her friends her domestic or other engagements may vith propriety pre vent her from receiving their visits ; but if she chooses to see them he dress if proper for the business in which she may happen to be eng.gcd she will never be ushimed of huh at home and abroad il will always be dictated by a sense of propriety pre serving a proper medium between the extravagances of f.shion and that homelv plainness that usually denotes an ordinary mind snacks during the plague in lon don a noted body searcher lived whose name was snacks his business in creased so fast that finding he could not compass it hc offered to any per son who should join him in his har dened practice half the profits ; thus those who joined him were said to go snacks hence going snacks or di viding the spoil dtlllkrupt dividends â€” the anec dote of the barber's failure in wed nrsdiy's paper reminded a friend to call and tell us of a loss he met with a lew days since by the bankruptcy of a professional polisher of boots the disciple of day & martin had his only change pair of snow trackers in posses sion for the purpose of gibiti on cm de reel shine â€” but as ihey did not ap pear at his door in due lime in the morn ing he put on yesterday's dull pair snd found his way to the shop of culfe brush which was fast as a door nail could make it cuff however shewed the dark of his countenance through a oroken pane and said flood mornin massa open the door cuff oh massa i bcry surry i can't admit your honour cant why not v why 1 met misfortune and beeil obliged to torn bankrup ah that's had how much have you failed for i'irteen dollar acbenty one cent massa well hand out my boots cuff make an honest settlement wilh your creditors and you'll do well enough here's one massa hand along the other oh no massa i only pays dibi dend of filly cent on de dollar uasum trans raising itrnt r'ir i intend ta raise your rent sain a latilord to a ten ant to which the latter replied i ans much obliged to you lor i cannot raiso it myself / â€” wit !â€” i'he new york enquirer wss once tdited a many of ur readcei ra awae by m m nai,ah a man of genuine wit and humor and of whom we will say wiih all hia faults the rorfi editorial could have " belter spared a batter man hia humorous paragraphs acquired for hia paper extensive notoriety which iha present editor attempts to sustain hy most wretched imi'ntions ol hia pre.tccc.sor imitate wit he had a well attempt lo imi.ate lightning w e quule below a fen specimens uf ahoration win h wo find in one paper if ihoy do not make our readers at k they havo su ouger stom achs than we are blessed with a abernelhifs courtship und mar tiage â€” the following amusing anec dote of ahern.ithy the surgeon is from the 18ih number of the nation alpotrait oallery :â€” " the reported lashion of his courtship and marriage is exemplary while attending a lady for several weeks he observed those admirable qualifications in her daugh ler which he truly esteemed to be cal culated to render the married state hap py accordingly on a saturday when taking leave ol his p.ticnt he addressed her to the billowing pur port ('â€¢ you are now so well that i need not see ynu afler monday next when i shall come to pay my farewell visit rut in the mean time 1 wish you and your daughter seriously to consider the proposal i am now aboul to make it is abrupt and uncere mt.nious 1 nm aware ; bill tbe exces sive occupation of my time by my profeaional duties affords mat no lei sure to accomplish what i desire by the more ordinary course of attention and solicitation my annual receipts amount pounds and i an settle - â€” pounds on my wife ; my charac er ia generally known to the public in that you may readily ascertain v hat it is i have seen in your stale of maine vs.pedlars of woo llen clocks â€” on m mday last a bill was twice read in the legislature of maine prnhihitingjpedlara from trav elling irom town to town selling woo den clocks on the pen dty of thirty dollars for each one sold in vlolati in of the law is not this rank treason against ihe numerous race of indus irious new kngland pedlars we know that these clocks go excellen well â€” we verily believe and will vouch for it that n..t an advocate of this bill in maine keeps iis good time or obtains in his utoretiienls a tick as unlimited or should by chance his tick he about ceasing or when it has ac tually ceased there is no one who has the key â€” golden one of course to wind up and go tick again why i this bill pass into a law what would become ol our excellent new kngland friends wholesale dealers in clocks nutmegs aud other noliomsi well may they exclaim the pedlars occupation gone much we fear that this may bc their exclamation before long for lhe bill hall passed to a third reading â€” this dogberry would have said is most tolerable and not to be endured what has become ol lhe national bank ll ii puling on its dicky what has become ol the merchants ex change i fixing iii spun mauifetto ef the 'â€¢ mnienall t.t iv tngtos â€” mr webster has just published in lhc iwo 'â€¢ national organs at wash ington a " manifesto on the present hale of his pariv a synopsii ol lhe cal i ooo affair he his not put his name tu it â€” suppose he was ashamed lo du it a oeahtlon â€” tristram burgess in thc house hacked the administration 011 ike llushi.ni mission and tazwell in senate ll.e turkish par nobite fratrum the u s ll.nk oigans ore abusive ng f severe psltisb und impotent upon col hcnion ol miiaoun the colonel can si and a breeze memoirs of jeijeison.â€”tae west minster review lur the month of oc tober last observes in relation to this important work : our limits do not admit of our doing justice to the valuable content of thcbc volumes j but we most earn estly commend tl.em to all our read en who have not yet perused them as containing numerous and rich ma terials of authentic history .- as pre senting on almost all truly important questions views sometimes new most frequently just and always worthy ol patient consideration : as abounding in incitements to mor il c irage and po litical honesty as confirming rational hopes of the progress of knowledge and liberty : us elevating our opinion of human nature the tditor of the morning chroni cle a paper published iu london fur ther remarks :â€” jefferson was undoubtedly the greatest public benefactor that has ap peared in the nineteenth century whatever may be his sta.inn in the eighteenth in which it is difficult to say that he was second even to washington we have recently heard the follow ' ing storv of one of the oovernura of the slates : his excellency was doing the honors of lafayette's reception in a splendid room fitted op for thc inter esting occasion he had been as little accustomed to a carpet as the coun tryman who walked around it on the floor ; but treated it with much 7 lets respect his kxcellency was an inor dinate chewer ol tobacco and had a most juicy mouth which he emptied with but little ceremony ou the turkey carpet whose splendors were unfolded for ihe reception ofthe nation's finest the servants in attendance looked upon thc disgrace to which their favor ite was ihui subjected with silciu sor row but witii many a significant look " the wiju lire says the rich mond whiff 1 re slrasdy migrating la mc north many membors from con greas are expected bete in a few day w |, coll ibe praai.lÂ«nt.nd cabinet an aeefihalolu administration he nana â€¢' l'a.iceph..lus ihe lavorite horse of al exandor iho great the president of he united states hank could have _ t mr walsh rtglit as to he application of certain animals wnoarc ridden lur cer tain purposes wal.b'i national hank ia^cite is scry industriously opposing lba odmtn.si llop i'.iciy way he glvas ila m.i v x mer